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Has anyone played the PS2 Cowboy Bebop?
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I remember seeing this on gametrailers back in high school and then...it never came out.
Well apparently it did in Japan. I thought Bebop was pretty popular, what with it spearheading Adult Swim back in the day. But I guess Bandai didn't give a shit. IT's sad that Ubisoft didn't get their hands on that license the way they did for Naruto.
Anyway has anyone imported it and played it? Does it suck?
I remember seeing this on gametrailers back in high school and then...it never came out.
Well apparently it did in Japan. I thought Bebop was pretty popular, what with it spearheading Adult Swim back in the day. But I guess Bandai didn't give a shit. IT's sad that Ubisoft didn't get their hands on that license the way they did for Naruto.
Anyway has anyone imported it and played it? Does it suck?
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Less sales and recognition of Cowboy Bebop may mean that the planned live-action film will never ever come to pass.
I pray to fucking god they abandon that project, if there's one thing history has taught us it's that American live action adaptations of anime NEVER FUCKING WORK.
I only threw in "American" because I suddenly remembered OldBoy.
The screenshots make it look pretty cool but why would anyone import it? You'd be stuck with the japanese voices and everyone listens to the english dub right? I like to think that even the people over in japan listen to the english dub.
Anime purists can be fucking weird, man.
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edit- Call me an "anime purist" if you want, I think the "genre" (which isn't even a genre) is mostly filled with comic book level drivel at best, (I don't even want to talk about some of the crimes against humanity I've witnessed) but you can cherry pick some really good stuff, Bebop an example (it's a pretty short list which for me consists of Hayao Miyazaki's work and Cowboy Bebop and to a lesser extent Ghost in the Shell) In any case, anime is as much of a genre as "American Television", a fitting comparison because for every Arrested Development you have a mountain of unfettered shit or indefinite redundant milking of a mediocre concept.
But if you're going to take the time to watch anything I can't see how you'd tolerate mutilating the language- changing entire sentences just so they fit the cadence of a different script. Not to mention how awkward it sounds to hear Midwesterners pretending to act like Japanese characters...and say what you will about "Spike" and "Faye", they're basically Japanese archetypes and Bebop is a very Japanese show.
Anyway, if you watch the show in Japanese, Spike doesn't sound like a Solid Snake voice clone, the va is more subtle. But even great English dubs are inherently stilted and limited and there really is no other excuse for dubs other than laziness to read subtitles if you're willing to forgo a better, more reliable translation and allow the context of stuff to be somewhat molested at times (which you are)
Uh...
No, live-action Dragonball was most certainly not shelved.
I guess so. I tried listening to the original voices once but I just can't do it. Every english voice just seems to fit for me, Jet in particular. Didn't the creator(s) also say they liked the english voices or something? I don't know, I don't keep up with the series anymore. I just watch the Pierrot episode whenever it's on Adult Swim.
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Bebop lends itself more to dubbing because of the multicultural setting, but I don't see how this makes it a less Japanese show, and there are things that do not translate well at all, like the comic relief with Ed, a lot of Faye's characterization, etc. For me there's a fundamental disconnect when I hear voices trying really hard to portray something in a cultural context that they basically can't.
Dude...
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The only way I would accept Reeves (or anyone else) in a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie is if they do it with rotoscoping, A Scanner Darkly-style.
Shock.
Is it just me, or does that look like a really high-end CGI art student project? (Maybe it's the lack of crowd scenes, or the youngness of the main actors, but there's a definite "guy, a few friends/classmates, and 100,000 combined hours of render time" feel to it.)
I'm unsure if Reeves would make a good Spike, but that quote does seem like something Spike would say. That gives me a little confidence, at least.
Wasn't all this shit a lot more popular like, 5 years ago?
it looked fun...like Dynasty Warriors with a Cowboy Bebop skin, I'm assuming you get to go on the Bebop ship...
And Speed Racer was good as long as you actually wanted a remake that was true to the show. I loved it. I guess most people were expecting it to be dark and mature or something. Instead it was Speed Racer.... in Live Action.
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I was not aware of Akira, and I thought Ghost in the Shell was forgotten.
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Only about thirty times more repetitive, worse controls, and inane puzzle sequences.
Enthralling.
hah, we're getting an american version of oldboy!
Reeves did fine in Matrix.. He would do fine on Cowboy bebop. the question is who could pull off ED?
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Yeah, that's recent news. Will Smith and Steven Spielberg are working on adapting the OldBoy Manga.
Also, I heard this game was really shitty, and that's why they didn't bring it over.
They did bring over the Champloo games, so we have to give them credit for that.
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Now I just imagined a scene in Cowboy Bebop and it's Keanu Reeves with a Spike haircut, Ron Perlman with a metal arm, and a claymation Ed rolling around petting a CG Ein.
Anyway the movie is supposed to be a 2 hour adaptation of the first episode, or so they say. No Faye, Ed or Ein in that. Also that's one of my favorite episodes, so I'm pretty happy about it.
You know they'll add Faye. Because they can.
Also, I saw speculation that they were going to edit the first episode's premise into the overall Spike storyline, and make it so the red dragon cartel have a lot of involvement with Red Eye smuggling and shipments.
Honestly Reeves is probably the only guy who i could see as Spike, he has the attitude and he could pull off the look. Spike is not Japanese after all so him being played by an american actor is not as much of a stretch as it is for the Dragonball movie.
I'm intrigued, but its only because Bebop could be pulled off as a live action movie if it was actually done right, it isnt a hokey and cheesy as Dragonball is, and it isn't based on a Chinese myth like Dragonball, so American actors are 100% passable in the Bebop mythos.
Where did you hear that?
I'd be pretty happy with that, actually.
I could live with this. I think it's good to cut down on the characters, because they only really mean anything if you know their backstory. Otherwise they're all pretty silly.
That would in turn be a re-re-adaptation of Desperado...